Chapter 91 Harvesting Cheap Things!
Li Mengbai originally planned to wait for Jiang Yuhuo to return at the inn. He used a small piece of Earth Flame Vine as a deposit, asking Jiang Yuhuo to use talismans to collect the auras of two Tianque disciples, so that he could sneak into that place undetected.
He could have sent his own men to do this, but the thought of her being that bastard's junior sister made him unable to resist ordering her around, just like he used to enjoy doing the same to that bastard. However, this time the woman was incredibly stupid; she agreed so readily that Li Mengbai didn't experience any pleasure in watching her struggle.
Li Mengbai sat in the inn, feeling rather sullen. She was truly willing to do anything for that bastard.
But then he thought, she's so stupid, what if she exposes herself and ruins his plan?
No, he has to go and take a look.
Then, Li Mengbai saw Jiang Yuhuo pressing down on a Tianque disciple whose clothes were half open in the corner, placing his hand on the other's chest, and the other did not resist.
Li Mengbai narrowed her eyes. Was she gathering something, or picking flowers?
He didn't know where the anger came from, but he immediately shouted, "What are you two doing?"
The two people involved both turned to look at him.
One gaze was blank, the other icy cold.
Jiang Yuhuo immediately withdrew his hand sheepishly, while the Tianque disciple, despite being caught in the act, remained unfazed, his eyes conveying a warning.
But who is Li Mengbai? He hates having to read other people's faces and he hates people who give him attitude.
We wanted him to leave, but he insisted on coming!
Li Mengbai strode towards the two of them, her beautiful face full of anger. "Jiang Yuhuo! You told me to wait for you to come back, but here you are, entangled with some shady characters!"
Jiang Yuhuo was startled by Li Mengbai's angry shout and was abruptly pulled back to reality. She subconsciously felt a sense of bewilderment. Sometimes she would uncontrollably have cruel thoughts.
But in the eyes of the merman, she appeared to be feeling guilty because of the newcomer. He noticed her every move, as if placing her hand on his chest was an embarrassing thing.
The heat suddenly vanished, and Jia Yue clutched her chest, coughing violently a few times.
Jiang Yuhuo couldn't help but show concern, "Are you alright?"
Jia Yue lowered her eyes, her brows furrowing slightly. "It's nothing, just a little cold."
Li Mengbai had already arrived and saw that the Tianque disciple who had just been glaring at him had quickly changed into a pale and weak appearance.
Heh, Li Mengbai chuckled coldly. He'd seen enough of this kind of trick since he was a child.
However, this person looked somewhat familiar.
Li Mengbai looked at the Jianmu tree pattern on his clothes. The Jianmu embroidery was stained red with blood, and its original color could no longer be seen.
Not thinking of it for a moment, and too lazy to bother, Li Mengbai simply categorized this person as a scoundrel. He grabbed Jiang Yuhuo's hand without any politeness and said, "Jiang Yuhuo, come back with me!"
Although Jiang Yuhuo was worried about Jia Yue's condition, he was, after all, a disciple of the Tianque Sect and no ordinary person. He didn't need her to heal him. "In that case, I will thank you on behalf of my senior brother for the bead."
Seeing that the person who had finally returned was about to leave again, Jia Yuexin suddenly tightened his grip. By the time he realized it, his hand had already grasped Jiang Yuhuo's other hand.
"Are you going with him? Where to?"
He clutched his chest tightly with one hand, looking so weak that he seemed about to collapse at any moment.
Jiang Yuhuo thought of the pain Wen Yizhan suffered when the poison flared up.
Li Mengbai, standing beside her, glared at her with murderous intent. He gripped her hand tightly. "Jiang Yuhuo, don't pay any attention to him! Let's go."
After hesitating for a moment, Jiang Yuhuo neither answered Jia Yue's question nor obeyed Li Mengbai's command. She broke free from the two of them, and a burst of spiritual energy swept across her, leaving a wound on her right little finger, from which blood immediately seeped out.
“My blood can suppress the dragon poison. My senior brother has already tried it. If you don’t mind, you can drink it.”
Under the watchful eyes of everyone, she held her finger out to Jia Yue.
Jia Yue couldn't hide her surprise, which turned into delight. He looked at her, smiled, and nodded in agreement, "Okay."
"Can't!"
Li Mengbai shouted and tried to stop her, but the Tianque disciple who had been weak and powerless just moments before raised his sleeve, and immediately a barrier of knots stood between him and Jiang Yuhuo.
He could only watch helplessly as that bitch opened her mouth and took her finger in her mouth.
Li Mengbai slammed his fist into the barrier in a fit of rage, his hand aching from the impact, but the barrier remained completely unmoved. He didn't know where his anger came from, but seeing that idiot obediently offer up his blood just because the other coughed a few times, he was furious.
She couldn't even see through such a clumsy trick!
And that bitch's staring eyes, as if she wanted to devour her, made it obvious that she was sticking out her tongue and entwining it around her fingers.
You worthless thing!
He glared fiercely at the Heavenly Palace disciple that Jiang Yuhuo had somehow recruited, his eyes filled with hatred that wished he could tear him to pieces. But the other party had no time to look at him, and what angered him even more was that Jiang Yuhuo was also looking at that wretched thing.
Li Mengbai wanted to wake her up and prevent her from being bewitched by this appearance! But this ghostly barrier seemed to block even his voice; no matter how much he shouted from the outside, the people inside remained unmoved.
He felt as uncomfortable as a balloon, full of anger but unable to find an outlet.
Jia Yue's face grew increasingly red. He gazed at her profile, her finger in his mouth, her breath in his throat. He swallowed the incense, mouthful after mouthful, as if he were swallowing her as well. The warmth flowed into his chest, dispelling the chill, but also giving rise to a more hidden desire.
Not enough, not nearly enough. For a ferocious predator like him who originally lived on the seabed, his prey should naturally be swallowed whole.
Beneath the calm surface of the sea, turbulent currents surge.
With his Adam's apple bobbing, the merman, now in male form, greedily swallowed everything.
Her blood tasted familiar; he must have tasted it somewhere before to feel such a strong sense of familiarity the moment he swallowed the first mouthful.
So he bit his knuckles, his tongue lingering on the wound, instinctively trying to extract more information from it.
Jiang Yuhuo frowned slightly, her wound a little sore from his bite. She immediately pulled her hand away and gave him a disgruntled look.
"Okay, you look much better now."
It's not just much better, it's so red it looks like it's about to be cooked.
A reminder from her gaze made Jia Yue realize that she had just lost her composure, and her face immediately turned even redder.
"I'm sorry..." He took her hand and poured cool spiritual energy into it, and the wound was quickly healed, the flesh and blood merged together, just like before.
"I was reckless."
Jiang Yuhuo had no intention of getting entangled with him. Seeing that he had drunk the blood and returned to normal, she didn't want to stay any longer. However, the barrier was still standing, and outside was Li Mengbai, who was glaring angrily at her. She glanced at Jia Yue and gestured for him to remove the barrier.
Not wanting to anger her any further, Jia Yue slightly moved her sleeve, and the barrier immediately vanished without a trace.
Before she could stop him, the young man in purple pulled her away, and the two figures quickly disappeared into the crowd.
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"Jiang Yuhuo, you're not allowed to give him any more blood, understand?"
Back at the inn, Li Mengbai warned her as soon as he returned, "If you don't listen to me, then we don't need to cooperate anymore. Even if I throw away or burn the Earth Flame Vine, you won't get it! Let that despicable...shameless bastard die!"
"Anyway, I'm not the one who needs to save people."
"It's my blood that's being drained, what's it to you?" Jiang Yuhuo was displeased, but her tone remained calm. "Besides, you already agreed."
"Give me the complete Earth Flame Vine if I help you get what you want."
Li Mengbai raised an eyebrow. "That's right, I agreed. But now, I'm adding another condition: you're not allowed to associate with that Tianque disciple again."
“You don’t need to tell me.” Jiang Yuhu threw away the broken sword and pondered finding a shop to replace it with a new one. “You don’t know, my senior brother’s eyes were injured because he was doing something for him. In a way, he can be considered half an enemy.”
"Oh?" Li Mengbai became interested. "Tell me about it."
He had no idea that the bastard and this scumbag had a grudge against each other. Since they were enemies, he might as well take advantage of it. It would be best to make them fight to the death, so that they would both be severely injured.
Jiang Yuhuo pulled two talismans from his pocket and placed them in front of Li Mengbai. As requested, they contained the auras of two different disciples of the Heavenly Palace.
She took one of the bills and handed it to Li Mengbai.
Li Mengbai held it to his nose and sniffed it lightly. The spiritual energy contained in the aura was pure and powerful, and it was chilling. He couldn't help but curl his lips. "Not bad, you actually managed to recruit a high-level disciple. This will make our passage much easier."
"He is not a high-ranking disciple, he is a disciple of the Heavenly Palace Sect."
Li Mengbai was startled, and the fleeting glimpse he had taken during the Immortal Sect Grand Competition flashed through his mind.
He remembered; that person also had the same pair of ice-blue eyes.
However, his demeanor today was completely different from his otherworldly appearance on the high platform that day. Li Mengbai couldn't connect the two images. He thought he was just an ordinary merman cultivator. He never expected that he was the merman sect leader.
Li Mengbai couldn't help but look back at the female cultivator in front of him, recalling that since the end of the competition, the tracking spell he had planted had been pointing towards Tianque Mountain for a long time.
"So, you stayed at Tianque Mountain because of this clan leader?"
The sinking of Tianque was no secret, and Jia Yue's identity was common knowledge; there was nothing to hide. Therefore, Jiang Yuhuo briefly recounted to Li Mengbai how Wen Yizhan had agreed to Jia Yue's request to retrieve the Heart-Protecting Scale from the seabed, in order to ask for the sinking of Tianque, and how he had been injured in the process.
Li Mengbai listened attentively, then narrowed his eyes slightly. "I see. In that case, your senior brother must hate this merman to the core. Just for borrowing a pool, he lost an eye."
Jiang Yuhu shook his head, "No, Senior Brother has never harbored any resentment."
Li Mengbai smiled mysteriously and shook his head, "Hmm... that's hard to say. Perhaps he has just never revealed it to you."
There are no good people in the Li family.
"That was an eye! Such a delicate and fragile thing, brutally torn apart by the dragon's claws. Not only could it no longer see, but it also suffered from the dragon's venom day and night, never finding peace. Tsk tsk, how painful! And how perfect for breeding resentment. Perhaps, resentment has already riddled it with holes..."
"Shut up!"
He looked at the female cultivator, her clear black and white eyes now blazing with fury.
"What, are you feeling sorry for her?" Li Mengbai met her gaze without fear, a teasing smile playing on his lips. "I was just saying, and you can't handle that?"
What will she do if she sees Wen Yizhan being slowly crushed under his feet in the future?
Unfortunately, if everything goes smoothly, she probably won't get to see him.
He will get better.
Jiang Yuhuo glared at him and emphasized in a deep voice, though she was speaking to Li Mengbai, it sounded more like she was talking to herself.
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Author's note: Thank you so much for everyone's suggestions and encouragement! I've decided to start writing with an iron will from today onwards!
Actually, the current data is already much better than I expected when I started writing, so finishing it is a victory! However, there's still a lot to write, and my typing speed is just too slow. I originally planned to finish it at 600,000 words, and I hope to finish it before National Day [doge].
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